Category: women
-
A Woman’s Place is the Key
The life of woman does not coincide with that of man. Their lives do not intersect; in many cases do not even touch. Hence the life of the race is stunted. – Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling in ‘The Woman Question’ 1886 In Bristol, on 3rd May, the organisation ‘A Woman’s Place UK’ held a […]
-
A glorious weekend for women
Women have been on the campaign trail for weeks, seeking to ensure that councillors elected in the 5th May local elections know about and respect women’s rights, but this May weekend felt like a fantastic, celebratory finale. Across the country, women womened ‘Respect my sex’ stalls, where the occasional jeers from the ‘women have p*****s’ […]
-
She’s asking for it, isn’t she?
It’s so tempting isn’t it! You see a woman in all her make-up and fancy clothes, her hair a mass of mega-chemical orange, her nylon-encased legs sticking out of whatever it is she’s almost wearing, and you think – well – why would she do that? Because she wants to look that way! Say the […]
-
Our Thanks to the Opposition
(Is it okay, guys, if I write a bit of a tongue-in-cheek piece to entertain the wimms?) The other day, I put out a blog post calling for an end to people nagging the women’s rights campaigners. I was fed up with our organisations having to deal with non-stop slander and sabotage, whilst being constantly […]
-
Of Musk and Money
***long read for the weekend*** The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Nor is the friend of your friend necessarily on the same page as you, and just to make things even more complex, your friends and comrades just might not agree with you… There’s been a noticeable change in the prevailing winds […]
-
“Calm down, dear!”
We have been told, over and over, that the women’s sex-based rights campaign needs to be more nuanced, more polite, and more sympathetic to those opposing sex-based rights. We have been told we should use the language and the parameters of debate those who oppose us dictate. We have been told we should listen to […]
-
It’s a legal issue
“Why are you obsessed with trans people?” I must have been asked this a hundred times in the last five years or so – usually by the same few people – I don’t think they ever listen to the answer, but here it is anyway: for most of the last five years, I’ve been saying […]
-
Book signing at Thaxted
What is the best way of launching a new biography in Covid-19 times? As 26 March 2022 would have been the birthday of Isobel Holst (born in 1876), singing in the Dulwich Choral Society concert on that day, with a programme featuring works by her husband Gustav and daughter Imogen, as well as by their […]
-
Questions for council candidates?
Yes, women are asking candidates about sex. I do rather worry that unscrupulous politicians (like Boris Johnson) will just say whatever they think the women want to hear, whilst those who’ve been bullied will say absolutely nothing, whatever their views. It doesn’t need to be complicated though. If you’re a candidate and receive ‘the questions’ […]
-
Left in the Middle with You
It has been a very wearing experience being a woman doing battle for the Corbyn movement in Labour, and then a woman doing battle with the remainder of the left in Labour after Corbyn. (Yes I had to stop and read that sentence back, too.) This is an article about solidarity In the Corbyn years […]
Kay Green 